Simon, Can you please give us serious answers. Writting to this list take valuable time from me and from those reading the mails.
> > - Authors don't answer or have given up on maintaining there modules > THEY ARE VOLUNTEERS. Please don't shout if it's note to show you're happy. Check the discussion we had about Roman.pm a few weeks ago. My point is not to force anyone to develop anything but that when a module is released and the author can't maintain it, the curators job would be to design a new maintainer. Period. Now, surf to: http://search.cpan.org/recent and check: Haver-Server-0.02 -- Perl extension for blah blah blah You might think it's OK but I don't. Here is an example of what changed from version 0.07 to 0.08 for a module (loaded 10 mn after 0.07) 0.08 Sun Feb 16 16:21:00 2004 Fixed MANIFEST for test.pl Everybody makes mistakes. I just would like to help people not do this kind of mistakes. Since I have missed the document, you might be able to point to it instead for telling me that I have missed it. And no, sear.cpan.org isn't a silver bullet though I use it more than cpan.org. Cheers, Nadim. "Simon Cozens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Khemir Nadim) writes: > > Everything that was said in this thread was very interresting and I, too, > > belive things should get better and I encourage those that want to do things > > _now_. > > None of these ideas are new. > > > - Any one can start whatever hierarchy > > This is not a problem, now we have search.cpan.org. > > > - Anyone can load whatever piece of code to CPAN, good or bad > > I don't agree that this is a problem. > > > - Documentation level is a catastrophy, check how many readme are those > > generated by h2xs > > But the generation was added to h2xs because people weren't putting in > READMEs, and so an autogenerated one is better than nothing! > > > - The document about how to use CPAN is not clear enough or I haven't found > > the right one yet > > You haven't found the right one yet. > > > - 25 versions of the same module do no make it easy to look around in CPAN > > This is not a problem now we have search.cpan.org. > > > - Authors don't answer or have given up on maintaining there modules > > THEY ARE VOLUNTEERS. > > > - The same day, the same module can be uploaded to CPAN multiple times > > Yes, module authors can fix bugs quickly. How terrible! > > > Far from me the idea to refuse uploading of modules to CPAN but 3 years from > > now, we'll have a "useless module heap". If there is a need for curators, I > > believe it does, then those should be given a mandat and power to apply it > > or it will be useless. > > *We have been through this*. Innumerable times. Still nothing happened. > > The people most likely to act as curators got together (as they do > periodically) and decided that better metadata would be the best short-term > goal. I'll try and get some of them to write up the latest set of proposals. > > -- > "The best index to a person's character is a) how he treats people who can't > do him any good and b) how he treats people who can't fight back." > -- Abigail Van Buren
